Westchester Career Guide

Lead­ing ex­perts say that chang­ing jobs is vi­tal to ad­vance­ment, and iden­ti­fy­ing which fields are in-​de­mand is key to im­ple­ment­ing an ac­tion plan for suc­cess.

Career change expert Valerie Young shares tips and guidelines on how to escape the j-o-b world to live the life you love.

There is a process you can follow to be smart about returning to college. The first thing to do is spend more time thinking about your interests than you do thinking about money. That sounds counterintuitive, but returning to college has to be about more than chasing a paycheck.

The once-​pop­u­lar board game Ca­reers al­lowed play­ers to seek new pro­fes­sions sim­ply by rolling the dice. Yet switch­ing ca­reers, even in these tough eco­nom­ic times, need not be such a gam­ble.

Whether heading into the work force for the first time or perhaps being shuffled around by the economy, em­ployees and future employees are evaluating and re-​evaluating their ca­reer paths.

You can’t open a newspaper or switch on the news at the moment without hearing about the economic downturn that the whole of the western world is suffering from. Hardly any sectors are immune, and many companies are making redundancies in order to stay afloat. The worst part of this is that companies often slow [...]